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The Perceived Causes For the Shortage of Minority Teachers
… in the teaching profession. Undergraduate ethnic minority students at Southwest Missouri State University who were not education majors were surveyed to determine their reasons for not choosing teaching as a profession and their feelings about the teaching profession. The analysis of data …
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Induction experiences of minority teachers in a rural Mississippi school district
The induction experiences of minority educators in a rural Mississippi School District were sought for this qualitative study. In a district of 196 teachers, only 54 were minority educators and of that number only 22 taught core subject courses. Interviews were conducted with 11 minority educators, …
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Making the Transition From Paraeducator to Professional Educator: Five Minority Teachers Share Their Stories
Slightly more than two million teachers will be needed for the nation's classrooms within the next decade. Consequently, some states have begun to look to their ready supply of paraeducators, also known as teacher assistants, as a pipeline for supplying qualified teachers. These paraeducators who …
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The Perspective of School Personnel in a Georgia School District Concerning the Recruitment of Minority Teachers
… the difficulties of attracting quality minority teachers are becoming more challenging. The lack of a racially and culturally diverse teaching staff remains a major issue in education nationally and locally, especially since projections indicate that the representation of minority …
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Factors that Contribute to the Shortage of Minority Teachers in California Schools: A Review of the Literature
… and interrelated issues surrounding the lack of minority teachers in California public schools. This paper focuses on the relationship between the inadequate and unequal education for ethnic and racial minority students in California and nationwide. The paper is divided into three main parts: Why …
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Exploring the Minority Teacher Shortage in Southeast Georgia
… in which the state was noted as being a majority-minority public school system, which means more than half of the school population was comprised of non-white individuals (Johnson, 2006). These demographic trends make it necessary for educational leaders in Georgia to examine practices that can …
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Recruiting Minority Faculty: The Effects Of The Bradley Memo Of Understanding On An Urban School District - A Program Evaluation Dissertation
… has many facets, this dissertation examines the minority faculty initiative portion of the agreement. There are many obstacles to overcome regarding attracting African American teachers to the PCS district, and they seem to be similar to struggles found in other districts across the state of …
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A Phenomenological Study of African American Elementary Teachers
Problem: In 2011-12, 82.7% of K-12 teachers were White, yet 44% of all elementary and secondary students were minority (Ingersoll, Merrill, & Stuckey, 2014). Teachers raised and educated in predominantly White communities typically have limited knowledge of communities of color and culture (Tatum, …
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Addressing The Importance Of Recruitment And Retention Of Black And Latinx Teachers: Strategies Designed To Diversify The Teacher Pipeline
… females, lags behind, with Black and Latinx teachers comprising less than 30%. This lack of representation poses challenges for students without culturally similar educators. My research explores the impact of teacher diversity on Black and Latinx students' success, revealing positive …
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A Study on the Level of Ethnic Representation of High School (9-12) Teachers to the Ethnic Representation of Students Enrolled in Each Comprehensive High School in the Commonwealth of Virginia
… between the ethnicity of students and teachers. This has been linked to the achievement gap between ethnic minorities and Caucasian students in public high schools in America, according to researchers Gershenson, Holt, and Papageorge (2016). The hypothesis that a school division that …
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Georgia School Principals' Experiences with Racial Minority Teacher Recruitment
… of Georgia school principals with racial minority teacher recruitment. Although it is important that the teacher workforce reflects that of its diverse population, there has been limited research on the experiences of Georgia school principals with racial minority teacher recruitment. …
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The recruitment and retention of African American students in vocational teacher education
… in the teaching force, as well as a decline in minority student enrollments in vocational teacher education (Pratzner, 1987). Statistics also indicated that by the year 2000, the number of minority students in public schools will make up approximately 40% of school enrollments, while the number …
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Effective Strategies for Recruiting African American Males into Teacher Education Programs
… the teaching workforce consisted of 79.2% white teachers. The same data reported that the teaching workforce consists of 7% African-Americans (Will, 2020). From that 7% of African-Americans, African-American males consists of 2% of the teaching workforce (Bell, 2017). Some school districts are …
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Cultural competency : an inside view of today's classrooms
… degree level earned.The sample consisted of 2800 teachers, teaching in 82 schools. They ranged in educational experience from student teachers to those with doctoral level degrees and in length of experience in urban schools from just a few months to over 29 years. Of the 2800 teachers requested …
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Lived Experiences of Selected African-American Male Elementary Teachers in Georgia
The supply and demand of teachers is constantly changing in the United States because they are steadily flowing in, through, and out of the educational profession (Ingersoll, 2002). Many educators and administrators are concerned about the shortage and underrepresentation of minority teachers in …
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Are They "American" Enough to Teach Social Studies? Korean American Teachers' Social Studies Teaching Experiences in American Public Schools
… explores three Korean American social studies teachers' experiences of teaching social studies, focusing on their curricular and pedagogical perceptions and practices. Framed by sociocultural theory, this study aims to shed light on the heterogeneous stories and socially and culturally …
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Being and Becoming Public School Teachers: Career Mobility of Chinese Overseas-Trained Teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area
… in the United States for decades. Ethnic minority teachers are underrepresented in public K-12 schools as well as teachers for English learners. Untapped pools of overseas-trained teachers who are lawful permanent residents exist but are unemployed, underemployed, or working in other …
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Effective School District Recruitment Strategies of African American Teachers
… a continual decline in the number of available minority group teachers to supply America's public school for the past six decades. Several factors were noted for this decline which included better opportunities for minority advancement in other professions, low teacher salaries, the low prestige …
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The Status of Student Academic Performance Based on the Demographic Representation of Public Middle School Teachers and Students in the Commonwealth of Virginia
… the 1980s the United States saw an increase in minority educators in public schools (Ingersoll and May, 2016) that continued to rise over the next two decades. Currently, the percentage of minority students in public schools exceeds the percentage of White students. Specifically, in the …
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